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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit 30: Demographic Dimensions of the Family and Marriage System

Unit 30: Demographic Dimensions Notes

of the Family and Marriage System

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
30.1 Subject Matter of Social Demography
30.2 Theories of Population

30.3 Summary
30.4 Keywords
30.5 Review Questions

30.6 Further Readings

Objectives
After studying of this unit, students will be able to:
• Understand the family and marriage system of Indian Society.
• Understand the life expectancy, sex ratio, age structure of the family members.

Introduction
The subject matter of social demography are : birth rate, death rate, resident-non resident popu-
lation, sex structure, population density and distribution, life expectancy, living standard, pop-
ulation control of a society etc.
The social issues of a country play important part to give understanding into any country’s
population. This relate demography with sociology and it gives birth to social demography.

30.1 Subject Matter of Social Demography
The population density, structure of population and its attributes effects social and economic
conditions of any country. These are the important traits which determine a country’s growth.
The population of my country should be balance compare to the available means. Uncontrolled
population growth, results in population explosion. Unemployment, over crowded sovereignty,
poverty are the causes of family sufferings and disintegration, directly or indirectly. Population
explosion or growing population depreciate a country’s economic growth. It also slows
down the speed of planned development. Over population embarks many serious problems
in less developed countries, as-the working/workable population gets no work, that infuse
dissatisfaction into students and increase poverty, etc.

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